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THERE IS NO UNBELIEF
Whoever plants a seed benea
th the sod
And waits to see it push away
the clod,
He trusts in God.
Whoever says when clouds are
In the sky,
“Be patient, heart, light break
eth by and by,”
Trusts the Most High.
Whoever sees ’neath winter’s
field of snow,
The silent harvest of the fu
ture grow,
God’s power must know.
Whoever lies down on his cou
ch to sleep,
Content to lock each sense in
elumber deep,
Knows God will keep.
Whoever says “Tomorrow”,
“The Unknown”,
“The future,” trusts the po
wer alone,
He dares disown.
The heart that looks on when
eyelids close,
And dares to live when life
has only woes,
God’s comfort knows.
There is no unbelief;
For thus by day and night un
consciously
The heart lives by the faith the
lips deny.
God knoweth why.
This beautiful Easter poem,
written by Elizabeth York Case,
was published many years sign
ed “Author Unknown” or “An
onymous”. Finally scholars who
loved this poem and believed
that credit should be given its
author, searched diligently and
established the name of the au
thor.
♦
Another Easter poem well wor
th reproducing is one written
by Henry H. Barstow. It is “If
Easter Be Not True.”
If Easter be not true,
Then all the lilies low must lie;
The Flanders poppies fade and
die;
The spring must lose her fair
est bloom
For Christ were still within the
tomb —
If Easter be not true.
If Easter be not true.
Then faith must mount on bro
ken wing;
Then hope no more immortal
spring;
Then hope must lose her
mighty urge;
Life prove phantom, death a
dirge —
If Easter be not true.
If Easter be not true.
Twere foolishness the cross to
bear;
He died in vain who suffered
there;
What matter though we laugh
or cry;
Be good or evil, live or die,
If Easter be not true?
If Easter be not true —
But it is true, and Christ is ri
sen!
And mortal spirit from its pri
son
Of sin and death with Him
may rise!
i Worthwhile the struggle, sure
the prize
Since Easter, aye, Is true!
Country Parson
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“Love is not the best
solution to man’s problems
— it’s the only one.”
DAILY NEWS
Established 1871 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., April 2-3,1966 Vol. 95 No. 77
First Cavalry
Traps
By BRYCE MILLER
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) —Two compa
nies of the U.S. Army’s 1st Air
Cavalry Division today trapped
an estimated Viet Cong compa
ny of about 100 men in a valley
near Chu Pong mountain and
called down air strikes, artille
ry and tear gas on the
Communists.
The American troops were
perched on both sides of a
small narrow valley in which
the Viet Cong were dug in
trenches, foxholes and bunkers,
about two miles east of the
Cambodian border about 210
miles northeast of Saigon.
The fight broke out shortly
Flag Ripping
At Cordele
Is Denounced
CORDELE, Ga. (UPI)—Two
Negro groups Friday denounced
a U. S. flag ripping incident
which occurred during a Negro
student demonstration.
The Macon - Bibb County
branch of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People and the Bibb
County Coordinating Committee
said the demonstrators who
tore an American flag Thurs
day have “disgraced thedr fam
ilies, their communities, and
those they purport to repre
sent.”
The two groups issued a joint
statement saying they did not
doubt conditions in Cordele
schools were “less than ade
quate” but the demonstrating
students should remember they
had a chance to transfer to oth
er schools last fall under the
“freedom of choice” integration
plan in Crisp County.
“They will have the chance
again this fall,” the statement
went on.
Gov. Carl Sanders ordered
state troopers to protect the
American and state flags from
further harm.
In an Atlanta statement de
nouncing the incident, Sanders
said “In my judgment, there is
no greater outrage that can be
perpetrated against our nation
and our state.”
Earlier Friday, Grand Dragon
Calvin Craig of the United
Klans of America said he would
call a meeting of “all patriotic
Americans,” including Klans
men, to be held Sunday at the
Crisp County courthouse in C4r
dele.
Craig said he would urge all
klansmen to attend the event,
which he called “for all those
to support our national flag,”
in connection with the incident.
An American flag was tom
when Negro demonstrators
tried to pull the stars and
stripes and a Georgia flag from
the lanyard in front of the Cor
dele courthouse. The students
ran two other pennants up the
flagpole instead—flags which
read “freedom now” and “we
shall overcome,” slogan of the
civil rights movement.
The students had been dem
onstrating for three days in
protest of unsatisfactory condi
tions in Negro schools.
One Negro woman, Ramona
Lockett, was arrested Friday
and charged with desecrating
the flag, a misdemeanor under
Georgia law. Warrants were is
sued for the arrests of three
other persons in connection
with the flag incident.
after lunch and four hours later
the U.S. soldiers said they had
counted the bodies of 10 Viet
Cong dead. Other 1st Cavalry
men reported killing 15 other
Viet Cong in scattered fighting
elsewhere in the area.
By nightfall the two cavalry
companies made “heavy con
tact” with the Viet Cong and
radioed for air strikes and
artillery support. Cavalry heli
copters showered riot gas
grenades on the Communist
positions. The non-pjisonous
gas causes eye and skin
irritation and coughing.
Elsewhere throughout the
country the Communists close to
run rather than fight.
U.S. B52 bombers pounded
supply routes in the crucial
Communist - dominated north
west comer of South Viet Nam
today while on the political
front thousands of Buddhist
backed dissidents staged a
series of anti-government de
monstrations in the larger
cities. At Da Nang 10,000
Buddhists demanded return to
civilian rule.
The B52s led a deadly parade
of about 450 air strikes in both
North and South Viet Nam. In
ground action, Allied troops
killed 57 guerrillas and cap
tured two others in scattered
encounters.
Government employes and
Vietnamese soldiers—some of
them walking wounded who left
their hospital beds—joined in
anti-government protests at
Hue and Da Nang despite
threat of reprisals from Pre
mier Nguyen Cao Ky.
American officials fear the
mounting demonstrations might
topple the government. They
ordered all U.S. soldiers and
civilians to avoid the areas to
prevent possible incidents.
In Saigon, the toll at Hie
shattered Victoria Hotel U.S.
officers billet rose to seven
today with the death of another
Vietnamese. Three of the
victims were U.S. MPs ma
chine gunned to death by
terrorists shortly before they
detonated a tremendous bomb.
All but 18 of the 113 Americans
injured have been released
from hospitals, officials dis
closed today.
The terrorists escaped but
South Vietnamese police later
arrested a taxi deiver after
finding a hand grenade in his
vehicle and questioned him. He
led police to a house where
some of his companions were
said to be staying, but no
additional arrests were report
ed.
Ground Action
In the major ground action,
two companies of the U.S. 1st
Cavalry Division caught a
company of Viet Cong in the
Central Highlands near the
Cambodian border and engaged
them in a fire fight. When the
fighting broke off four hours
later, the GIs counted 10 bodies
and estimated others had been
carried away.
The 1st Cavalry chased a
main force Viet Cong battalion
across the Cambodian border
after a fierce fight at nearby
Chu Fong Mountain earlier in
the week and had been waiting
for them to come back and
fight.
Three battalions and a
reconnaissance company of
South Korea's crack Tiger
division moved into a Viet Cong
dominated village near the
coastal city of Qui Nhon, 275
miles northeast of Saigon. They
made contact with the enemy
and killed 17 before the
guerrillas broke off the engage
ment and fled.
Bicycle Thief
DETROIT (UPI) —Hollywood
would have called it “the
bicycle bank bandit.”
Police weren’t sure what to
call it—while it was going on,
anyway.
They said a teen-aged youth
robbed a branch of City
National Bank Friday and
escaped with $3,500. The unique
aspect: The thief escaped on a
bicycle.
He dropped the bicycle two
blocks away and jumped into
the trunk of a car being driven
by a 23-year-old woman. A
passerby in a small foreign car
saw the bandit flee the bank
and took after him just in time
to see the bandit change
vehicles.
“The police were closing in by
this time, somewhere behind
the little car. They cut the
bandit off at an intersection
and the young man and woman
Jumped out and led the whole
crew on a chase through
several back yards before the
final curtain came down.
Police recivered $3,500 and
the couple was held for
investigation.
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5-STAR WEEKEND EDITION
GRIFFIN
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Door Knocking
Dick Brooks (top), Bill Perkins and Bonnie Young,
Griffin High students, knocked on a lot of doors to
day as football players and cheerleaders solicited
funds for Easter Seals. The students spent the day
in the downtown area asking for contributions to
help the crippled children of the state.
Strike Curtails
Trains
ATLANTA (UPI)—The Sea
board Airlines and the Centra]
of Georgia railroads, crippled
by a two-day, nation-wide strike
of the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen and Enginemen,
announced Friday that passen
ger service out of Georgia
would be curtailed today.
In the Atlanta area officials
of Ford and General Motors
said 7,000 automotive workers
would be idled as a result of
the walkout.
Union vice president R. L.
McCollum was served notice in
Macon to show cause why he
should not be held in contempt
of court for defying a tem
porary restraining order.
The Seaboard lines said here
that the Southbound Silver Star
and Silver Meteor which left
New York Friday would con
tinue to their normal Florida
terminals today. They were to
end their runs at the stations
Fires Rage
In N. Georgia
THOMSON, Ga. (UPI) — A
two-mile belt of flames swept
through five rickety frame
dwellings north of here late
Friday as scattered forest fires
continued to rage out of con
trol in Northeast Georgia.
Whipped by high winds and
feeding on the tinder dry for
est, the flames swept toward
residential areas less than a
mile away as firefighters and
bulldozer crews struggled to
clear a 200-foot break in the
hopes the blaze would burn it
self out.
Strings of grassland and for
est fires were reported through
out the Southeast Friday.
Earlier in the day, the Geor
gia Forestry Commission had
placed a ban on the setting of
outdoor fires anywhere in the
state. The order came as a
combination of high winds and
dry weather turned woodlands
into volatile tinder boxes.
service,
Central of Georgia President
W. E. Dillard said passenger
trains would not be running al
though freight trains would con
tinue to operate.
Dillard estimated the cost of
the strike for the Central lines
at between $125-150,000 per day.
W. H. Moore, Southern Rail
way vice president in charge of
operations said in Washington
that freight trains were running
on schedule although “we’ve
had to annul quite a few of our
passenger trains. This could be
an inconvenience to passenger
trains. I don’t know this for a
fact. But it speaks for itself.”
The striking enginemen and
firemen, who for two days de
fied a court order to return to
work were ordered to show
cause why they should not be
convicted of criminal contempt
of court.
U. S. Marshal Charles Bailey
served papers on McCollum
and two other union officials in
Macon who refused to obey a
temporary restraining order is
sued by federal Judge Frank
Scarlett in Brunswick Thurs
day.
McCollum said he would
await orders from union presi
dent H. E. Gilbert before com
plying with the restraining or
der. The “show cause” papers
order McCollum to appear in
court in Brunswick Monday.
Patrolmen Come
Home Sunday
School patrolmen in the Grif
fin-Spalding System are sche
duled to return home Sunday
morning at 7:30. They have been
in Washington this week on their
annual visit to the nation’s capi
tal.
The buses will unload at the
Colonial and Kroger parking
lots.
Action New
Obstacle In
Settlement
...By WILLIAM J. EATON
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Eight
struck railroads announced
today they would seek a
contempt citation against the
railway firemen’s union for its
three-day strike against them
in defiance of a federal court
injunction.
The railroads’ action threw a
new obstacle in the path of a
possible back-to-work move
ment by firemen whose strike
against the eight “selected”
lines has crippled rail transpor
tation across the country.
The railroad management
earlier had pledged not to take
reprisals against the members
of the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen and Enginemen
(BLFE) for the strike, but
refused to promise not to
pursue punitive legal action.
The union clearly believed
the major threat of court action
was passed and said it expected
agreement with the eight lines
by late today. But at mid
morning, the BLFE said it had
been informed of the contempt
action. The railroads then
confirmed the suit was being
brought.
The contempt suit had been
threatened Friday after an
appeals court here upheld a
federal district judge’s Thurs
day injunction ordering the
BLFE to end the strike, which
started at 12:01 a.m. Thursday.
The BLFE subsequently said
it would order its men back to
work if the railroads would
pledge not to fire any of the
people involved in the strike or
would not pursue contempt or
damage suits.
J. E. Wolfe, the chief
management negotiator, said
he could not give the pledge
concerning legal action—only
the promise against reprisals
against strikers.
The contempt suit was being
handled by U.S. District Judge
Alexander Holtzoff, who issued
the original no-strike order.
The BLFE said all eight were
contacted by union vice pres
idents before 3 a.m., and it had
no knowledge of a report there
was trouble in getting in touch
with union pacific officials.
Hold The Presses
NEW IBERIA, La. (UPI) —
As every newspaper editor
knows, especially those in small
towns, every contributor thinks
his story deserves to be on the
front page.
The Daily Iberian solved the
problem Friday and kept all its
contributors happy. It num
bered every page in its April
Fool issue page one.
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Weapons at the ready, a U.S. Navy patrol boat cruises the Saigon River waterfront.
Security measures in the port area have been stepped up with increased Viet
Cong activity along the river, the South Vietnamese capital’s vital supply line to
the sea.
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Griffin Daily News
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To His Excellency,
• PONTIUS PILATE, Procurator of Judea,
Greeting:
’ It is our desire, most worthy Pontius, that you grant the
bearer, Arius Jovinus Bassianus, every courtesy and pro
tection during his sojourn in your jurisdiction.
Know that Bassianus is to be permitted to wander the
streets of Jerusalem at will and without hindrance that he
| may study the appearance and bearing of the Judeans for
a purpose which he will make known to you.
This is our will and command. May the gods deal kindly
with you and that realm under your governorship.
TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS NERO,
Imperator.
K,
THIS IS THE KEY which opens the door on the greatest drama in
1 all history as it might have seemed to one lonely Roman, far
from family and home.
By means of this bit of parchment Arius Jovinus Bassianus,
citizen of Rome, becomes a spectator of the marvelous events of
Passion Week, the Ordeal of Christ, the Trial and Tribulation, the
Great Sacrifice, the Final Triumph of Jesus of Nazareth.
Through the eyes of Arius we, too, are brought upon the scene
in his
SIX LUCILLA LETTERS
Explosion Rips
Tanker In Harbor
MARSEILLES, France (UPI)
—Two huge explosions ripped
the 31,712-ton Liberian oil
tanker Olympic Honour today
in one of the busiest harbors in
the world. The first blast set
the ship on fire and the second
injured four firemen trying to
put out the flames.
Police reports said at least
one crewmember was killed
when the original blast turned
the ship into an inferno.
Another 25 were reported
injured, some seriously.
But a fireman said he was
able to glimpse through thick
smoke and flames the bodies of
several men lying on the floor
of one of the ship’s empty oil
tanks.
A group of port workers
defied the threat of more
explosions to try to reach the
trapped crewmen by cutting a
hole through the ship’s steel
plating.
French officials speculated
the first explosion might have
been caused by gas fumes.
Port officials said the explo
sion occurred shortly after a
work gang boarded the tanker
to make repairs. They said the
Olympic Honour was not loaded
at the time, but the blast tore a
large hole in the stem of the
ship and set fire to residual oil
and engine fuel.
Two fireboats and all availa
ble city fire brigades, sum
moned by an emergency appeal
over the Marseilles radio,
poured geysers of water
through the smoke onto the
blazing stern.
Several tugboats chugged in
to move another oil tanker
moored near the Olympic
Honour and prevent it from
catching fire.
Officials said the Olympic
Honour, owned by Rivadavia
Maritime, Inc., of Monrovia,
pulled into Marseilles for
drydock from Gulfhaven, Den
mark, on March 26, They said
the tanker had a crew of 38.
Too Much Car
HALESOWEN, England
(UPI) —Police were looking
today for a thief who wanted a
$10,360 car so badly, he took it
by driving it straight through
the showroom’s place-glass
window. But the car, which can
do 135 MPH, was apparently
too much for the thief. It was
found half a mile away
wrecked against a lamp pole.
There was no sign of the
driver.